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Ackers, Helen Louise.

Mobile professional voluntarism and international developmentkilling me softly? /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mobile professional voluntarism and international developmentby Helen Louise Ackers, James Ackers-Johnson.
Reminder of title:	killing me softly? /
Author:	Ackers, Helen Louise.
other author:	Ackers-Johnson, James.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :2017.
Description:	xv, 173 p. :digital ;22 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Humanitarian assistance.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55833-6
ISBN:	9781137558336$q(electronic bk.)

Mobile professional voluntarism and international developmentkilling me softly? /
Ackers, Helen Louise.

Mobile professional voluntarism and international developmentkilling me softly? /[electronic resource] :by Helen Louise Ackers, James Ackers-Johnson. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :2017. - xv, 173 p. :digital ;22 cm.

1. Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development 'Aid' -- 2. 'First Do No Harm': Professional Volunteers as Knowledge Intermediaries -- 3. Fetishizing and Commodifying 'Training'? -- 4. Can (Imported) Knowledge Change Systems? Understanding the Dynamics of Behaviour Change -- 5. Iterative Learning: 'Knowledge for Change'?

Open access.

This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book explores the impact that professional volunteers have on the low resource countries they choose to spend time in. Whilst individual volunteering may be of immediate benefit to individual patients, this intervention may have detrimental effects on local health systems; distorting labour markets, accentuating dependencies and creating opportunities for corruption. Improved volunteer deployment may avoid these risks and present opportunities for sustainable systems change. The empirical research presented in this book stems from a specific volunteering intervention funded by the Tropical Health Education Trust and focused on improving maternal and newborn health in Uganda. However, important opportunities exist for policy transfer to other contexts.

ISBN: 9781137558336$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-55833-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

203045
Humanitarian assistance.

LC Class. No.: HV553 / .A25 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 361.26

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